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Star Wars is in a right mess
I am talking about episode7. But with the writer who i cant remember who he is by the way has been sacked theyve had to start re writing the scipts. Also filming will be delayed till spring and ive read it might not be released till 2016 i think it is saying they dunno the actual story. I think they are in a mess I honestly dont think they need to do another star wars. It was 1 story from Episode 1 to episode 6 how a good man turns bad and how his son returns him to the good side. That was all sorted where do they actually go.
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Well if you actually knew anything about Star Wars then you'd know that George Lucas had always envisaged Star Wars to have 3 stories that would be over 3 trilogies of 9 episodes and maybe a few more odd films to bring it up to 12.
Well, win-mehwhocares, but that doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
Filming is still set for Spring 2014, and release is still set for 2015. It's not unusual for blockbusters to go through multiple rewrites etc, which inevitably leads to rumours of doom and gloom. Seeing as screenwriting duties have now been handed over to JJ Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan (who co-wrote Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and Raiders of the Lost Ark), I certainly see no need to panic. You sound quite reluctant about the new movies, I'm guessing that's the reason behind your negative spin on the story.
I watch them now and think, did I really think these films were brilliant, because apart from Empire Strikes Back they seem really poor, especially Return of the Jedi, which I think is as bad as The Phantom Menace.
So if somebody can tell me what I am now missing , please let me know.
Seriously though, I get your point and quite agree. As actual cinema in the purely artistic sense, none of them really amount to much. But in the cinema as western pop-culture sense, Star Wars was immense. Probably the biggest game-changer the industry ever saw.
Of course there will always be a grey area where artistic merit and cultural significance overlap, and some will put forward a strong defence of Star Wars' position there. Suffice to say that if part of the art of cinema is getting people into theatres, it's a titan indeed.
Yes, nicely explained.
Also, if you were there in 1977, you will know just how radical the original Star Wars was in terms of sci-fi. It was up there with Bladerunner and Alien in terms of changing sci-fi and Hollywood cinema in general.
Of course none of the Star Wars films have dated well and they're really rather poor films (the dialogue is laughably bad). I really liked the first two when they were released but I was a kid at the time and they're kids' films.
Jedi is not a great film, granted.
You have to remember these films were made in the 70s and early 80s, watch any film from that era and they are all quite awful compared to the modern digital, CGI and other trickery.
I'll never forget watching episode 4 at the cinema, there had never been a film even close to the grand spectacle that was Star Wars, it blew me away completely.
Empire was an amazing sequal, again you have to remeber there was a gap of 6 years between episodes 4 and 5.....that's unheard of today and the anticipation for the second film was crazy.
These days space alien romps are a dime a dozen, back then it was completely different.
Alien was 79, Bladerunner was early 80s. I remember their release well, but Star Wars was there first and to this day i still wonder if they had not made Star Wars if films like Bladerunner would ever have been made.
I think Star Wars might have revived studios' interest in the sci-fi genre but Bladerunner and Alien each take a completely different approach - Bladerunner's dystopian urban vision and Alien's battered space ship with its crew of ordinary Joes are both a world away from the sci-fi flicks that had been made before.
Episodes 1-3 were just pointless crash-wringing crap, anyway.
The next one will be utterly and completely crap and irrelevant.
See that is what would worry me...apart from the first Iron Man & Thor, then to me Marvel has been poor.
Yes, but if you look beyond your own opinion surely you recognise that so far reaction to the Marvel movies has been fairly positive, as is the buzz about the future, both from Marvel fans, and the wider popcorn munching general public. If Disney can strike a similar balance with the new Star Wars movies good on them.
Methinks you don't know much about film writing. It's very, VERY usual for a writer to write a treatment/draft of a script for a larger budget film and then for other writers to do a pass on it. In fact, you'd have a harder time finding examples of recent movies when this didn't happen.
For a Star Wars example, look up Leigh Brackett who worked on Empire before Lawrence Kasdan got near it.
For a recent franchise film, try the last three Bond movies which were worked on by a writing duo of Neal Purvis and Robert Wade...and another writer writing separately at a different time (Paul Haggis, John Logan).
Star Wars Episode VII may be an unmitigated disaster, but it won't be because one of the screenwriters has completed his work on the project.
Why would anyone waste their time? You don't like the films. Move on.
So come on then why are they so great. Or don't you know.
Star Wars is okay.
Empire is great, can't knock that
Jedi is just poor.
I grew up with them and loved them as a kid, or are they just kids movies nothing more.
I get what they did for the Sci Fi genre, merchandise and all that...but besides that what is great about these 3 films, or is that just it..it is what they did and not the films themselves that are great.
Lucas kept on altering his stories to hide the the shame of the abysmal films that were the prequel trilogy.
EPIC!
I'm reminded of 1997 when it was announced that George Lucas himself would write and direct episode one , with a great cast - Liam Neeson , Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman .
what could possibly go wrong ....
if you are "into" it, you will like it.
I have seen parts of them over the years, and wasn't over excited.
How old are you? 9? :rolleyes:
I've already said, why would anyone waste their time explaining why they like these films to you? So you can disagree? Get over yourself. Try here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P2iUJucbk4